Jill Murray
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I was talking to some friends recently about some of the quirks, advantages, limitations and particularities of b-girling, b-boying, breakdancing– whatever you might like to call it. Something that came up was the use of the term b-girl or b-boy, and how one can be a great breaker but not a b-girl, or a [...]
Continue Reading →Hello, b-girls and b-boys and people like me who just like to watch and dream and maybe try on a few moves from time to time!
Are you all aware of Battle Of the Year, Canada, which is just 10 short days away, in Toronto?
BOTY Canada is a face-off between Canada’s best b-boys [...]
Continue Reading →B-girl Ms. Mighty (who has a great new blog I’m totally going to be referencing as often as possible from now on) forwarded me this:
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Um… so I was going to post the next part of my NYC chronicles today, but then I stumbled (with the help of a little tip from Banana Theory) across this nest of clips of Phillipino-prisoners-re-enacting-pop-video-choreography on YouTube.
Thriller, of course:
This one’s for my friends back at the Canon Theatre in [...]
Continue Reading →The ultimate purpose of my Journey To The Centre Of The Earth last week was to take in some of the battles at the Rocksteady Crew 30th Anniversary. This year is my 30th too. 1977 needs to stick together.
If I can just interrupt myself here (self: “Sure. Why not?”), I’d like [...]
Continue Reading →So I guess it’s that time of year. I called home to my mom in Montreal the other day and she was all,
“Hey how’s it going”
“OK, I guess. You?”
“Um. Are you sitting or standing?”
“Walking around, actually.”
“Maybe you’d better sit,” she said, her voice grave. I nervously obeyed, wondering whether my [...]
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MacDonald’s currently has the top Google search spot on the term “b-boy battle.”
They have a game where you battle lego-like b-boys and b-girls and are reminded that MacDonald’s is open all the time.
I’m not going to post a link, because it’s MacDonald’s and that’s what they want me to do, and I [...]
Continue Reading →My review of Step Up is um, up, over at Torontoist.com.
It has more of a “how I spent my Friday evening” vibe than most of my Torontoist contributions, so I figure it’s worth mentioning here. Much thanks to Shebang! and co. for an evening well wasted.
“Pushing the teen [...]
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I love this movie. I reviewed it already on Torontoist.com, so if you like dance movies, sports movies, teen movies, or movies that get hip hop and suburban punk culture right, go check it out.
Continue Reading →MaeHem is going to be opening a street dance studio, and she has scored herself the best location ever, right at the corner of Queen & Spadina. As Ted Dancin’ aptly pointed out, this is not only the best possible intersection in Toronto to locate such a studio, but [...]
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